The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-12
Analoeies In Nature.

"Why should it be thought with you an
incredible thing that God should raise the
dead." Things all around us suggest it. On
what grew all these flowers? Out of the
mould and the earth. ReSurrectedl The
radiant butterfly, where did it como FRONT
The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross
that smites the tempest with its wing, where
did it come from? A senseless shell. Near
Bergerac, France, in a Celtic tomb under a
block, were found fower-seeds that had been
buried two thousand years. Tho explorer
took the hower-seed and planted it, and it
came up; it bloomed in bluebell and hello
trope. Two thousand years ago buried, yet
resurrected. A traveller says he found in a
mummy pit in Egypt, garden-peas that had
been buried there three thousand years ago.
He brought them out, and on the fourth Of
June, 1874, he planted them, and in thirty
days they sprang up Buried three thousand
wears, vet resurrected. "Why should it be
thought thing incredible with you that
God should raise the dead"
Where did all this silk come from-the
silk that adorns your person and your homes?
In the hollow of staff Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the proSeni-
tors Of those worms that now supply the silk
markets of many nations. The pagentry Of
hammered hosts and the luxurious articles Of
commercial emporium blazing out from the
silk-worms. And who shall be surprised If
out of this insignificant earthly life, our
bodies unfold into something worthy Of the
coming eternitiess Put silver into diluted
forever2 No. Put in it some pieces Of cop
per and the silver reappears. If one force
dissolves, another force organizes.
"Why should it be thought thing in
credible with you that God should raise the
dead?" The insects flew and the worms
crawled last autumn feebler and feebler and
then stopped. They have taken no food, they
want none. They lay dormant and insensi-
BILE, but soon the south wind will blow the
resurrection trumpet, and the air and the
earth will be full Of them. Do you not think
He does for the wasps and the spiders and the
snails? This morning, at half-past four
o'clock, there was resurrection. Out of
night, the day. A few weeks ago there was
q resurrection in all our gardens. Why not
some day resurrection amid all the graves!
-[Talmage.
When the Lord opens His mouth, we
should open our ears and hearts.-iSchaff.
The more the diamond is cut the brighter
it sparkles, and in what seems hard dealing
God has no end in view but to perfect His
peoples graces. -IDr. Guthrie.
God made both tears and laughter, and
both for kind purposes: Tears hinder sor-
rows from becoming despair and madness;
and laughter is one of the very privileges Of
reason, being confined to the human species.
Locke.
The growth of grace is like the polishing
of metals. There is first an Opaque surface;
by-and-by you sec q spark darting out, then
a strong light, till at length it sends back q
perfect image of the sun that shines upon it.
-[Payson.
Every event in this world is syllable
breaking from the lips of God. Every epoch
in affairs is a completed sentence of his
thought; and the great stream of human
history is Gods endless revelation of Himself.
-[Rev. j. II. Ecob, D. D.
The meek are not those who are never at
all angry, for such are insensible; but those
who, feeling anger control it, and are angry
when they ought to be. Meekness excludes
revenge, irritaLility, morbid sensitiveness,
but not self-defence, or quiet and steady
maintenance of rights.-lThcophyl